Deborah Reed-Danahay

Professor Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1986 Office: MFAC, Room 377 Phone: (716) 645-0406 Email: der5@buffalo.edu

Research Interests

Anthropology of citizenship and modes of national, transnational, and supranational belonging; memoir, personal narrative, and autoethnography; anthropology and education; social theory; history of anthropology; anthropology of Europe (esp. European Union, Western Europe, France); rural studies; immigration policy and process in the United States and Europe; Vietnamese diaspora.

Professor Reed-Danahay is founding Director of the Center for European Studies (CEUS) at UB and currently serves as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (2010-12).

During Fall 2012, Professor Reed-Danahay is on sabbatical and a Yip Visiting Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge University.

Selected Publications

Books

2012 Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian and Vietnamese Immigrants.  Stanford: Stanford University Press (with coauthor Caroline B. Brettell).

2008 Citizenship, Political Engagement and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States.  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (with coeditor Caroline B. Brettell).

*Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009

2005 Locating Bourdieu.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1997 Auto/Ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social.  Oxford: Berg Publishers.

1996 Education and Identity in Rural France: The Politics of Schooling.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Special Journal Issue Editor

1987 Anthropological Research in France: Problems and Prospects for the Study of Complex Society. Anthropological Quarterly 60(2).

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Undergraduate Courses Offered

APY 323 - Anthropology and Education
APY 402 - Contemporary Europe

APY 492 - Political Anthropology

APY 494 - Anthropology of Citizenship (Senior Seminar)

Graduate Courses Offered

APY 536 -Advanced Ethnology of Europe
APY 575 - Cultural Anthro. Topics: Migration and Diaspora
APY 575 - Cultural Anthro. Topics: Ethnography & Personal Narrative
APY 575 - Cultural Anthro. Topics: Bourdieu, Anthropology, and Law
APY 575 - Cultural Anthro. Topics: New Ethnographies

APY 592 - Political Anthropology

APY 654 - Graduate Survey of Social Anthropology